The Tarob and the Sacred Oath. Liminal Spirits and Stories Creating Heterotopic Spaces in Dusun Culture
This article explores two stories told during the production of the transmedia documentary project Big Stories, Small Towns: Bongkud-Namaus in the Dusun villages of Bongkud and Namaus in Sabah, Malaysia. Both stories relate to hungry and sacred entities – an atomised, monstrous moon-eating spirit called the Tarob, and a sacred oath bound in blood, which eats anyone who breaks it. The article will introduce the Big Stories, Small Towns project, the process that underpins this project and the site of production in Sabah of one iteration of the Big Stories, Small Towns, before analysing heterotop... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2017) |
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James Cook University
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Schlagwörter: | transmedia / web documentary / dusun / sabah / southeast asia / folklore / borneo / malaysia / indigenous / culture / sacred / hungry entities / documentary / liminal / tropics / Social Sciences / H |
Sprache: | Englisch Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26894925 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.1.2017.3569 |